Lu Ming

Chapter 161 You are here too
With a little bit of spring rain, Hangzhou City is full of spring, pedestrians are silent, and the hustle and bustle of the past is no longer.The ancient city in the south of the Yangtze River, which was warm and humid in the past, is now immersed in the rain and fog of the Little Ice Age, with bursts of chill.

In a private house in Xiuyifang, a young woman is watching the rain by the window.The woman wears a green shirt inside, and a goose-yellow gown on the outside. Her thick black hair is tied into a bun that is most loved by ladies, with tassels hanging down her ears, her curves are exquisite, and her posture is elegant.

At this moment, the girl was holding her chin with her hands, her beautiful eyes were fixed, and she was thinking about something. A gust of wind blew by, and a few begonias outside the window suddenly poked their heads into the window. , the scroll scrolled up.

Zhong Xiuxiu looks exactly like his father: straight forehead, thick eyebrows, strong nose bridge, and resolute cheekbones.

How should I put it, in the eyes of wise people in the 17th century, this look is hard to put it bluntly. Once you meet the kind of fortune teller and matchmaker who are not afraid of the powerful and abide by professional ethics, they will tell you: This is Kefu Like!

The daughter of the Zhong family is difficult to marry, and there is such an unspeakable secret hidden in it: her appearance.Her face shape does not conform to the traditional aesthetic concept of the 17th century, it is too hard and too ostentatious.

However, if Zhong Xiuxiu was wearing a white shirt, tied a ponytail, and held a colored lollipop at the moment, standing in the Chedun film and television base of later generations, it would quickly attract crowds of people, and tourists would come forward to take photos and praise her. The girl's imitation show is very high.

Yes, this Zhong family girl with thick black eyebrows, high nose bridge, and rigid lines, and the dumb girl holding a lollipop in later generations have an 88% overlap in appearance.

Just when the girl was full of thoughts and scolded Haitang lightly, two young people ran in from outside the hanging flower door of the small courtyard, laughing and joking.These two dear friends, one black and one white, are both about 20 years old. They dressed up as young masters, and after entering the door, talking and laughing, they went straight to Zhong Xiuxiu's boudoir.

Zhong Xiuxiu, who had seen the person coming from the window, hurriedly got up at this moment, and ordered the maid to prepare towels.

The young man with fairer skin is Zhong Xiuxiu's brother, Zhong Yi, the second son of Mr. Zhong.The one with the black spot is Xu, Xu Qibao, the youngest son of Xu Xiangshen, Zhong Xiuxiu's adoptive father.From the time Zhong Xiuxiu was brought back to Hangzhou, the two had found that they had similar tastes, and spent their days fooling around with a bunch of idlers in Hangzhou City.

Therefore, the strict tutor of the Zhong family is all nonsense, and Zhong Yi, like Zhong Yi, belongs to the kind of idler all day long.

"Second Brother, Seventh Brother, why are you so happy?" Zhong Xiuxiu asked while raising the door curtain.

"Jinniang, your husband is here, and he's talking to your lord in the hall." Here, Zhong Yi didn't wait for the maid to bring the towel handle, and hurriedly told the news, with a round face habitually showing A sly smile.

Zhong Xiuxiu, nicknamed Jinniang, blushed a little after hearing this: "Come today, leave tomorrow, even a beard can't stop you."

After Zhong Xiuxiu said this disappointment, the scene was a little awkward.

During the period after Huang Juren proposed marriage, the life of the Zhong family was also difficult.

Before Huang Juren appeared, the girl's marriage had long been a nightmare for Zhong and Xu's family: when Mr. Zhong took his daughter away from Xu's family, the reason of "finding a good wife in Hangzhou City" was the most helpless reason for Xu's family. Resistable rhetoric.The highest-grade in-law's family that Tugun can find for her daughter. It's still Tugun, how can it be as good as the official wife who is full of bells and lanterns?
However, the reality deeply satirized Mr. Zhong: After his daughter returned to Hangzhou, her sales were unsalable for two full years. At this time, the clock and Xu family are completely at a loss: send her daughter back to the countryside of Wenzhou to find a local stick?Or lower the standard and find a sour scholar in Hangzhou city?
At this point, everyone, including Zhong Xiuxiu, fell into despair.

This caused the Zhong family to turn into a neurotic state of mind overnight after the stupid big-headed Huang Juren was born: at the slightest sign of disturbance, they were afraid that something might go wrong and mess things up.

The golden matchmaker quickly noticed the smell. These days, taking advantage of the mentality of the Zhong family, the thieves decisively broke the rules of the matchmaking industry. Every time they completed a "six rituals", they were so arrogant that they extorted 5 taels of silver from the Zhong family.
You must know that these procedures are usually free of charge, and the service has long been included in the total fee—Pan Jinlian, who has a pair of well-wrapped feet and is quite beautiful, was only worth 30 taels of silver back then
However, the Zhong family all recognized it carefully, including the vanguard of the Xu family who rushed over after receiving the news, they all felt that it was better not to have any side effects - the Xu family's large army was still behind, and Zhong Xiuxiu had seven earth-stick brothers on his head.
There is a saying: good spirits are not spirits and bad spirits.

Huang Zhicheng had no idea what kind of despair the Zhongxu family had experienced during the few days when he went to the official station to pay homage to the boss: When the Zhong family received the vague news that the Huang family wanted to "suspend the marriage", almost everyone thought that This is a harbinger of the collapse—Huang Juren probably heard some rumors from somewhere, and knew some truths, or the whole truth
This kind of mentality of ups and downs, after the average person has experienced it, it is estimated that they should see through the world and realize it.Fortunately, Zhong Xiuxiu grew up in the countryside, and has never played with a person who hurts the spring and the autumn, so the girl does not plan to become a monk yet.

Of course, it is one thing to become a monk, but another to be depressed. Zhong Xiuxiu has been full of resentment recently. Just now, when her brother said that Huang Juren came to the house, Zhong Xiuxiu naturally said, with a hint of helplessness in her words. what!
"Jinniang, it's a good thing!" Seeing that Zhong Xiuxiu was uncomfortable at this moment, the dark-skinned Xu Qi hurriedly recounted the conversations that he had been eavesdropping just now while hiding behind the screen: "Your husband was originally an official fan. It is said that some high-ranking official got into the eyes of the official post, and he wants to work for someone else!"

"Ah!" Zhong Xiuxiu's beautiful eyes turned, and she was stunned.

"Huang Xiaolian came to the door today to discuss the date of marriage!" Zhong Yi added from the side: "It is said that he will go out to be an official in the near future. The wedding is tight, so we need to do it quickly! Hehe, hehe." Zhong Yi couldn't help it when he said this laughed.

"Which yamen are you going to be an official? What kind of official?" Zhong Xiuxiu was clever, and immediately thought of the follow-up: "But after marriage, you want to travel far away?"

This series of questions directly made the two prodigals stupid. They hid behind the screen and didn't understand. What about Dieshan (Xiong Wencan's pronoun) and how?

In short, today Huang Zhicheng personally went to the house to explain the reason, which really gave the Zhong family a reassurance.

At this moment, things went back to the original starting point: After twists and turns, everyone suddenly started to rush to make arrangements?
After Mr. Zhong left his prospective son-in-law here for lunch, the feng shui he had invited was ready, and everyone decided on the spot a good day in half a month's time.After that, Master Zhong was in a good mood, and gave Huang Zhicheng an official package. Master Zhong repaired a book.

Fujian's current Zuo Buzheng is named Cai Shanji. This person is originally from Huzhou, Zhejiang, and the two families have been friends for many years.Cai Shanji served as the county magistrate of Xiangshan during the Wanli period. Because he was "driving in Macao by bicycle" at that time, he handled a Portuguese riot case, and then formulated the "Ten Rules for Controlling Macao". respected.

Cai Shanji is now the official residence of Fujian Zuobu Zhengshi, and he is a big figure who can influence the situation in Fujian.

Mr. Zhong revised a letter this time, hoping that Huang Zhicheng would have more people to take care of him when he went to Fujian in the future. He did not seek to make contributions, but hoped that his son-in-law would return home safely. Well, what Zhong Xiuxiu Kefu said can never be cleared up.

That's how things were finalized.

In the remaining half a month, Huang Zhicheng began to prepare for the marriage with all his strength.All kinds of betrothal gifts, all kinds of entertainment, all kinds of anxiety: Even if there is a girl to accompany him every night, the important ceremony of marriage is still psychologically stressful for a bachelor in the future.

Fortunately, Mr. Huang is different from those dicks in the later generations. Mr. Huang does not need to work hard to get married, and everything can be done by talking about it.

After half a month, it will be an auspicious day.Huang Juren was dressed in a red robe with red flowers on his chest, riding a steed on his crotch, with drums and beats beside him, and the team marched vigorously all the way to Zhongfu.

The middle door of the Zhong Mansion has already been opened wide, and people of all colors are waiting in red and green, beaming, just waiting for my uncle to enter the door.

Huang Zhicheng, who is a continuation in name but is actually getting married for the first time, has already been punished in the past two days.Huang, who originally had the mentality of dealing with errands, now has a smirk on his face like a puppet, and a robot is generally at the mercy of others.

After going all the way, after the couple bid farewell to Mr. and Mrs. Zhong and Mrs. Xu Xiangshen who came here specially, Huang Zhicheng was finally able to lead his sister into the bridal sedan chair
Thinking that there will be a wave of banquets waiting for him when he goes back, he already wants to die at this time - it is the best policy to take the girls to flee Hangzhou as soon as possible, he can already foresee that the girl with seven or eight older brothers in his sedan chair How will the vicious doctor make trouble in her back house in the future.

Amidst the loud shouts of the first worship to the heaven and the earth, and the loud shouts of the high hall executives, a deaf-mute old man with his toothless mouth open in the main hall of Huangfu, is accepting the kneeling worship of the "family nephew" couple.

This old man was selected from the beggar gang a few days ago. After cleaning up, he temporarily acted as an "old man" of the Huang family.

Finally, it's all over.

After the banquet, the moon was in the sky, and the traveler Huang Zhicheng, wearing a big red robe, dragged his tired body and moved into the bridal chamber step by step.

It was exactly the same as in the TV series. The bride was wearing red makeup and a red hijab, and she was sitting on the edge of the bed motionless at the moment.

At this moment, Huang Zhicheng didn't have the strength to play any nonsense. He first poured himself a bowl of herbal tea, wiped his mouth, then randomly picked up the scale wrapped in red silk on the table, and lifted his hijab.

At this moment, under the phantom shadow of the red candle, the light and darkness changed, and the four eyes met.

Zhong Xiuxiu swears that she has never seen a person with such a surprised expression.

At this moment, Huang Zhicheng opened his mouth wide, his eyeballs protruded, his expression was dazed, his forearms were stretched out, and he kept a hijab-lifting posture motionless.

The clever Zhong Xiuxiu quickly understood: it was probably because of her tough appearance, which was unexpected by Mr.
At this moment, Zhong Xiuxiu, who was full of grievances and unwillingness, gritted her teeth and stared fiercely at the foolish Huang Zhicheng in front of her, with tears gradually forming in her eyes.

However, the groom did not raise a knife at this moment, and met her eyes like a star master. The next moment, with a "clang", the scale fell to the ground, and Zhong Xiuxiu heard her husband utter a strange sentence: "Shengyi, you Are you here too? Have you seen Mr. Cao?"

(End of this chapter)